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He is a weird one for me. I love the wild west in American history. Alas I also don't see him as a very good concept for MOTU. The way he dresses would indicate that Eternia has frontier towns with cowboys. It just doesn't seem plausible.

At the same point if they do make him I am certain he will be almost 100% vintage based.

I never had Rio Blast whn I was a kid but iused to play with a friend that had one. The figure was cool but it was kind strange to pop up his guns and see the holes in the body. I love the staction, for the MOTUC version I would like the legs, the big gun but detachable and the hair cut from the staction.

I def want Rio Blast in the line. To fit in with the other guys, the flip open features are probably going to be done away with but that's okay for me. I do not like the big gun arm on the staction but most of the other staction features look great.

actually, I think i asked about Rio Blast a few yrs ago & they said he'd have his flip out guns like the vintage figure 'if & when the get to him'.... so no worries there. we got moving gears for roboto, so i'm sure Rio will have his pop out guns. they don't require levers or buttons so they're doable for this line.

I'm sure the big gun hand will not be there, since that's a 200x hyper detail thing & that style is retired. I also didn't like the big gun for an arm thing on the staction. just give me an update of the vintage figure with all that great classics articulation & I'll be happy.
i'm sure the 4hm will give him some awesome inner details the same way they did for Trap-jaw & tri-klops, to make his inner parts look great when his guns are flipped out & bullets blazing. obviously, like Roboto he wouldn't have the ab crunch, but that's not a big deal imo for certain characters who'd have unique torsos.
I'd love to see how they'll do Spikor, who had a unique torso too.

for those who don't think rio Blast fits in with motu, because he wears pants, or is too space-age, should look at characters like Bow, trap-jaw, roboto, optikk, He-ro, etc.

Rio is just as much motu as characters like ninjor & jitsu. or Extendar who look like a knight of the round table imo. Asia isn't located on Eternia.... Earth isn't on Eternia, for that matter, but many of the characters are based on Earth animals, & Earth cultures aren't they? they did have a horse, Stridor didn't they? rio blast would go perfect with Stridor if they make them.

come on Mattel!!! Make Stridor & Rio Blast... they'd be perfect together imo. much better than Fisto & Stridor imho. though i want Fisto too.

I was thinking Rio could have the pop out guns without having a new buck or taking away from ab crunch. Have his armor have it so you can pop on & off the chest & knee guns. And as for his hand guns have them attach over the arms like the shields do. If that at all makes sense? And you can still have that large 200x gun. Any comments?

Rio-Blast is my most anitcipated figure of this line. I'm a huge fan of westerns and cowboy themed heroes. I really hope he makes it into the line sooner than later.

Rio always sort of struck me as the loner of the MOTU world. The drifter who lent a valuable hand when with the group but spent most of his time on solo adventures. Not a joiner kind of guy, but reliable when called upon. He was one of my favorite figures as a kid. He and my modified Night Stalker renamed Chaos (my stepdad repainted him silver& red on the purple& gold bits) rode the plains of Eternia doing heroic deeds. Plus he looked like Chuck Norris, another certified badass.

I can't wait to see how the Horsemen "classicsize" him for MOTUC.

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Personally, I want to see Rio Blast done more towards his classic look. I didn't realley like the big gun arm. If it's removable that's fine. I would realley like his flip out weapons incorporated though,

rio is a favorite and one of my favorites in the vintage line. i have no doubt the horsemen will do an awesome job on him for his classics figure, as long as he doesn't have a stupid mega gun hand and that other dumb **** on the side of his head like the staction did.

This guy was one of my favorite figures from my childhood, mostly because he had so much cross over potential with other toy lines. I must admit he really doesn't fit into MOTU very well (I even felt this as a child), but he remains one of my most anticipated.

Maybe his bio will tell of how he came back to Eternia with He-Man when he returned from Primus. That's really the only way I can see him fitting in, other than him being summoned to Eternia like Skeletor did with Blast-Attack, Ninjor and Scareglow in the mini comics.

I loved Rio Blast when I was a kid so I really want Mattel to do him right! Since TF when Scott mentioned every vintage figure was due by 2017, my mind has eased somewhat about getting certain characters so now I'm not worried about Rio.